10 Best Dating Sites of 2017

Compare the leading free and non free online dating sites, singles communities and dating services. Our research going back 5 years has been a witness and scribe as the internet dating world has transformed. Now mobile dating sites reign supreme and dating sites that focus around REAL, LOCAL, and ACTIVE singles lead the pack!

Let me be your guide to avoid all the shady internet dating sites and find REAL value with online dating...

Our Challenge to Creators of New Online Dating Sites – INNOVATE!

Before there was a Tinder, back when DateHookup was still pretty cool, long before HowAboutWe came and went we were turning over rocks here at DatingWebsiteReview.net sharing all the best new dating sites. We were sharing the REAL best dating sites; those which had LOTS OF REAL PEOPLE USING THEM. We were also calling out those dating sites that appeared to have boiler rooms full of low wage employees sending you messages from fake profiles. We did that… we followed the entire early stage of online dating with you our readers. This was the first growth stage before free and mobile would dominate and forever change the landscape of online dating. That transition happened lighting fast. It was between 2014 and 2015. It was fun and together we learned a lot. Lots of dating sites folded and hundreds more are a shell of what they once were.

Online Dating Post Free and Mobile Stage

It’s over now. Mobile centered sites and apps as well as totally free dating sites are all that are now viable. In case your late to the party you should know that in 2016 unless you have an angle to intrigue millions and the budget to scale your concept, it simply does not matter how cool your site is. Don’t be discouraged but do be realistic.

The story is often the same with the cool new dating sites and apps that have come across my desk over the past year that we rarely write about them anymore. The reason being their more often than not destined (at best) get 6 months of free novelty press and then run out of money; going away before they ever achieved usefulness to the consumer.

We should all be reminded that the goal of a dating site is to attract a community of real people who are single so that they can meet one another. To have something that is of value to all you must have an active database with singles in all the markets you serve. That is your service, in a dating site that is all you can offer. If you do not have that database you simply do not have a service nor a viable business. The truth hurts sometimes. To get to scale you must have a funding plan; a sustainable growth strategy. It can be done but it’s a TOUGH ROAD TO BEING A SUCCESSFUL ONLINE DATING BUSINESS.

Moving forward at DatingWebsiteReview.net we will have fewer reviews and those sites we have reviews for we will also start to in some cases remove; except of course for those that either have a decent size community or are of special interest to consumers as far as getting a large amounts of traffic. Instead of adding new reviews, in most costs we will share pitches from dating sites directly. Who is the person behind the dating site, what is their plan, what makes the site worth my time; those are the questions you should be asking before you invest yourself in joining a new dating site.

Pitch Your Dating Site or App here…

Think you can beat the odds and that your new dating site or app offers REAL VALUE and is worth people taking the time to try it out? MAKE YOUR CASE HERE AND WE WILL GIVE THE SPACE FREE.

Share your dating site startup. 500 words or less. We will print it for you at DatingWebsiteReview.net. Email it to RonnyJasonLee@gmail.com. Nothing pre-launch will be printed. You should have been active for more than 6 months and your pitch should be 100% original.

Write me direct at RonnyJasonLee@gmail.com and use this space to share your dating app or mobile dating site. We’d love to see and hear from you and share with our readers how you are innovating in the dating space and how your service is different. All we ask is that you also include your plan on how you will grow your service and that your pitch be original. At the end of each pitch we will offer one paragraph of our own feedback.

In the meantime, I would suggest the most mainstream dating sites in our list of the 5 best dating sites for 2016, all of which are mobile and/or responsive and have great active communities of real singles.

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About Dating Site Reviews by Jason Lee

REAL PERSON, REAL REVIEWS! Jason Lee has researched online dating sites and the online dating industry for 3+ years. He is the creator of OnlineDatingBackgroundChecks.com, DatingChimp the Dating Site Reviews App, and DatingWebsiteReview.net. In 2013 he also launched the first consumers reviews driven independent online dating award called the Golden Hearts. You will find refreshingly honest reviews of all REAL, relevant dating sites here as well as the latest free trial offers, promo codes, and discount codes for all the best online dating sites!

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Disclosure: DatingWebsiteReview.net now offers free dating sites across more than 120 interests. As our reviews are very heavily weighed by end user value we rank totally free dating sites very high, including our own. We believe that in this day and age consumers have every reason to be concerned because of the high volume of dating site scams. Therefore we focus only on trusted brands and we always encourage users to try free dating sites out first. You can peruse all our totally free dating sites here.

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The fact is the barriers to entry in online dating have come down. Now someone with a few thousands dollars can either custom code their own dating site or plug in a white label and make any claims they want. That is why more than 7 years ago now I started writing about the differences between good and bad dating sites. See which dating sites you can trust... Read the reviews by category.